Vegetable / Cool season
Georgia Southern Collards
Long-window leafy brassica for spring, fall, and mild winter harvests.
Broad, mild greens that sweeten after cool weather.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 65
- Germination temperature
- 55-85F
- Seed depth
- 0.5 inches
- Spacing
- 18 inches
- Row spacing
- 30 inches
- Start method
- Either
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 5 weeks before last frost
- Direct sow
- 28 days before last frost
- Transplant
- 14 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 10 weeks before first frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 28 days
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Even water keeps leaves tender.
- Soil
- Fertile soil with steady nitrogen.
- Watch
- Watch for cabbage worms and aphids before leaf damage spreads.
- greens
- brassica
- fall
- heat-tolerant
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Mustard Family Rotation and family context
- Cool Season Seeds Season collection
- Either Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Beginner-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Succession Sowing Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
- Part-Shade-Tolerant Seeds Practical trait collection
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